Palanan, Isabela by: Wilfredo Pascual, Jr.

One of the main objective when we started this project is to bond together the Ibanags and those of their descendants including those who, has adopted Cagayan Valley as their place of abode. For the people therefrom to rekindle their origin, culture and tradition and to take pride of their past. One video we stumbled upon was that by Wilfredo Pascual, Jr., entitled: "PALANAN, ISABELA". It depicts Palanan, Isabela, its culture and its people. The fact that it was in Isabela, which was actually part of Cagayan Valley - where the oldest human remains was found in our country, where the Spaniards actually set up forts even prior to or just within the same period with the forts in Manila - only proves that Cagayan Valley has its own culture, commercial and political system even before the coming of the foreigners. It is where the Philippine revolution might have actually begun and the last bastion of freedom where Emilio Aguinaldo was finally caught by the Americans in his struggle to save the Philippine Republic: "PALANAN, ISABELA", the video of Wilfredo, Pascual, depicts Palanan, Isabela and Cagayan Valley per se: